Pen and pencil clip.



IL L. SAXE.

PEN AND PENCIL CLIP,

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31, 1916.

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PEN AND PENCIL CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

Application filed July 31, 1916. Serial No. 112,404.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lmown that I, JOHN L. SAXE, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVaterbury, in the county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen and Pencil Clips; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in pen or pencil clips and has for an object the provision of a clip embodying means of novel construction and arrangement by which it is detachably engaged with a pen or the like.

A further object of the invention is to provide an article of the above character in which means are provided for holding the same pressed tightly against the pen or pressed outwardly therefrom when it is desired to apply the same to a pocket.

Still another object is to provide a pen or pencil clip which may be formed from a single length of material.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings Figure l is a side elevation of the improved clip associated with a pen,

Fig. 2 is a rear View thereof,

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l with the clip swung outwardly from the pen,

Fig. A is a rear view of what is shown in Fig. 3,

. Fig. 5 is a top plan view, and

Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the clip detached.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing there is shown a pen A with which the improved clip B is detachably associated.

I Specifically the clip B is constructed preferably from a single length of spring wire intermediately looped as at 10 and twisted together adjacent said loop as at 11 whereby to provide a tongue 12 for securing the pen A in a pocket in the usual manner.

The end portions of the wire are directed laterally at substantially right angles from the twisted portion 11 and oppositely curved to prpvide resilient gripping elements 13 adapted to embrace the pen, while the terminals of the wire are directed at an angle from the lateral portions in the direction of the tongue 12 and likewise oppositely curved to provide supplemental gripping elements 14 for a purpose to appear.

Thus when applied to a pen as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 the gripping elements 13 are disposed to frictionally embrace the pen while the extremities of the supplemental. gripping elements will engage the pen on the opposite side thereof from the tongue whereby to yieldably maintain the latter pressed tightly against the pen. When so positioned the device may, if desired, be employed in the manner of the ordinary clips, the free end of the tongue being slightly curved outwardly from the pen as shown at 15 to guide the material of the pocket beneath the tongue.

However as this clip has been particularly designed to relieve undue strain upon the tongue incident to applying the pen to the pocket, attention is directed to the dotted line position of the clip in Fig. 1 of the drawing, in which the tongue is swung outwardly from the pen so as to permit insertion of the pocket therebetween without distorting the tongue. This positioning of the tongue is made possible by the novel con struction and arrangement of the supplemental gripping elements 14, which elements, when the tongue is swung outwardly, will spread and permit their free ends to pass in opposite sides of the pen, thereby positioning the elements to embrace the pen and hold the tongue pressed outwardly therefrom. It is of course obvious that, when the pen is applied to the pocket, the clip may be caused to assume its normal position by exerting upon the tongue a pressure suflicient to spread the supplemental gripping elements and again move their extremities to the opposite side of the pen.

What is claimed is:

1. A pen or pencil clip comprising a tongue and gripping elements carried by the tongue adapted in one position to hold the same pressed against the pen or pencil and in their other position to hold the tongue pressed outwardly from the pen or pencil.

2. A pen or pencil clip comprising a tongue, laterally directed gripping elements at one end of the tongue arranged to hold the tongue pressed against the pen or pencil,

the free end portions of said elements bements being directed at an angle thereto in ing directed at an angle thereto to'provide direction substantially parallel with the supplemental gripping elements which tongue and oppositely curved to provide when in active position will serve to hold supplemental gripping elements.

5 the tongue pressed outwardly from the pen In testimony whereof, I aflix my signa- 15 or pencil. ture, in the presence of two witnesses.

3. A pen or pencil clip comprising a JOHN L. SAXE. tongue, laterally directed and oppositely Witnesses: curved gripping elements at one end of the D. A. WILLIAMS, 10 tongue, the free end portions of said ele- GEO. F. BOLGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

